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Steve Miller was always catchy and tuneful, but he never turned out an unabashed pop album until 1982s Abracadabra. This isnt just pop in construction, its pop in attitude, filled with effervescent melodies and deeply silly lyrics, perhaps none more noteworthy than the immortal couplet Abra-Abracadabra/I wanna reach out and grab ya. Those words graced the title track, which turned out to be one of his biggest hits, and if nothing else is quite as irresistibly goofy as that song, there still is a surplus of engagingly tuneful material, all dressed up in the psuedo-new wave production so favored by AOR veterans in the early 80s. All of that may not make this one of Millers definitive albums, especially in the view of hardcore space blues heads, but its pretty damn irresistible for listeners who find Abracadabra one of the highlights of faux-new wave AOR. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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